The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-25
FLORIDA.

ISihllu was given tneHl yesterday.
FLORIDA.
Near Lake City there are eighty acres in
tobacco.
Pipes for the gas works are now being
laid in Orlando.
Winter Park has 1000 volumes in its cir
culating library.
Pento peaches are selling at 10c. per
dozen at Orange City.
The Sheriffs office of Volusia county pays
about $4,000 per year.
The petition for q criminal court at Or
lando has 1900 signatures.
One of the heaviest rainfalls of the season
visited East Florida Sunday.
There is a colard growing in Plant City
that has reached six feet in height.
The mails to New Smyrna will now be
carried on the B. S., o. c. and A railroad
Olustee is shipping five, ten and fifteen
cars of lumber per day, and still the skids
are full
A Key West genius claims to have pat
emit for ''evaporating" oysters and other
shell fish.
Mr.. C. L, Dohr, of New Smyrna, was
married on Friday to Miss Hawley, of the
same place.
wheelwright no longer. Two shops will be
opened there next week.
A Mr. Pendar, of New York, is in Key
West, and has already made arrangements
to open cigar mandatory.
At an ice cream festival at New SMYRNA
last week money enough nearly was raised
to build parsonage for the Methodist min,
lister.
John Furer, of Sanford, is testing his
skill on tomato raising. Some of his medium
specimens weigh three-quarters of pound
each.
fernando county has organized far
mers association for the advancement OF
agricultural, horticultural and industrial
pursuits in that county
The battalion of the East Florida Semi
nary fired salute in honor of the passage
of the bill appropriating $4,000 to that in
stitution when the news came.
The water in Lake Monroe is lower now
than it has been for twenty years, and the
boats experience some difficulty at times in
crossing the bar at the mouth of that lake
The ladies of the Palatka Methodist Epis
copal church are making arrangements fol
a moonlight excursion down the river about
June 2. Proceeds for the benefit of the
church.
The Baptist church in Lake City will be
gin series of revival meetings on Thurs
day night of this week, and Rev. j. f. Eden
of Gainesville, is to be present to assist in
the services.
Capt. Benjamin A. Deal, for two years
past cashier of the Palatka National Bank
has resigned that position to accept one a
head bookkeeper in the Florida Southern
railway employ.
There are in Key West 1872 cigar manu-
factories, and at the end of the fiscal year
| there had been shipped over $4,000, 00t
was nearly 100000.
Bishop Weed has appinted the following
officers for the Episcopal Mission at Quincy
| II. +. Sharon, Senior Warden; John Law
renee, Junior Warden; DR.. T. l.. Wragg
Secretary and Treasurer.
The public school at Tavares closed las
| Friday. The teacher, Miss Rosa Bell Hal'
| ris of Eustis, has won the esteem of all 10y
| her efficiency and kindness, and the schoo
has attained high standard.
The farms and gardens around Olustee
| are looking very well, considering the dry
! weather. String beans, potatoes, etc, are
| plentiful in the market, and cigars will sooI
| be made from homemade tobacco.
The Olustee tobacco crops seem TO b,
| fiourishing, rain or no rain. This tobacco
| Mr.. ID. J.. Geer, the Lake City cigar man
says the best win sell for 81 to $S per pound
Florida is soon to have a paper mill thai
| is to produce the finest class of paper out o.
| palmetto fibre. The location has not We
been settled upon, but the mill when com
pleted, will give employment to hundreds o.
people.
Olustee comes to the front in regard to
| public schools. The people have secured q
| good teacher and are paying him literally
| for his services-even some of the old bach
elors have planked down at the expense OF
their futures.
Rev, James Taylor, of Apopka, who ha
been filling appointments in Tavares for thu
Methodist society, has resigned his charge
and will return TO Missouri with his invalid
wife, whose feeble health was the compel
ing cause of the resignation.
John +. King, Hernando's Tax Collector
is just finishing his final report, and out OF
S23, 900, the aggregate taxes Of 1885, there
remains but $1,000 not collected and the
whole amount of his tax sale only $685.
This looks well for fernando county.
Forty-flve ilrst-class machinists are EN-
ployed at the Palatka shops of the JaclSsou
vile, Tampa and Key West railway. Tn,
shops present busy scene, and TN immense
amount OF work is done there for Other
roads rs well us all the repair work fol
themselves.
Rev. Robert Meecham, of the Zion Method
list church, at Key West. has received and
will accept call to the Blocker street
church, New York city. Mr. Meecham is
not only a minister, but politician of some
note, having represented jefferson county
in the Senate for number of terms.
The orange crop for the ensuing season
around Anthony is indeed small. Many Of
the trees have none on, while the majority
of them have but few Some of the trees
have not blooned at all, and hopes are en-
tertained that these barren trees may vet
bloom this spring or summer and produce
some fruit.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railroad last Sunday began running excur-
sions from Tavares TO Sanford, and will